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Dixie Valley Engineered Geothermal System Exploration Methodology Project, Baseline Conceptual Model Report

The Engineered Geothermal System (EGS) Exploration Methodology Project is developing an exploration approach for EGS through the integration of geoscientific data. The overall project area is 2500km2 with the Calibration Area (Dixie Valley Geothermal Wellfield) being about 170km2....

Iovenitti, J. AltaRock Energy Inc

Jan 02, 2014
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Tularosa Basin Play Fairway Analysis: Weights of Evidence; Mineralogy, and Temperature Anomaly Maps

This submission has two shapefiles and a tiff image. The weights of evidence analysis was applied to data representing heat of the earth and fracture permeability using training sites around the Southwest; this is shown in the tiff image. A shapefile of surface temperature anomali...

Brandt, A. University of Utah

Nov 15, 2015
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Utah FORGE: 2024 Discrete Fracture Network Model Data

The Utah FORGE 2024 Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) Model dataset provides a set of files representing discrete fracture network modeling for the FORGE site near Milford, Utah. The dataset includes four distinct DFN model file sets, each corresponding to different time frames and ...

Finnila, A. and Jones, C. Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah

Sep 08, 2024
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Utah FORGE: Groundwater Data

This submission includes two modeled drawdown scenarios with new supply well locations, a total dissolved solids (TDS) concentration grid (raster dataset representing the spatial distribution of TDS), and an excel spreadsheet containing well data.

Moore, J. Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah

Jul 20, 2016
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Hawaii Play Fairway Analysis: Lanai Resistivity and Density 3D Inversion Models

To prepare for its third phase, the Hawaii Play Fairway project conducted groundwater sampling and analyses in ten locations in the Hawaiian islands, magnetotelluric (MT) and gravity surveys, as well as calculations of 3D subsurface stress due to the weight of the rock underlying ...

Lautze, N. et al University of Hawaii

Jun 01, 2020
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Chemical Impact of Elevated CO2 on Geothermal Energy Production

Numerical simulations have shown that the use of supercritical CO2 instead of water as a heat transfer fluid yields significantly greater heat extraction rates for geothermal energy. If this technology is implemented successfully, it could increase geothermal energy production and...

Carroll, S. et al Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Jan 01, 2013
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Snake River Plain Play Fairway Analysis: Phase 1 Report

This presents the results of Phase 1 of the Snake River Plain Play Fairway Analysis project, along with a proposed work for Phase 2. No new data were collected, but we list data sources for our compilation. The Snake River volcanic province (SRP) overlies a thermal anomaly that e...

Shervais, J. et al Utah State University

Jan 25, 2016
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Utah FORGE: Targeting Geothermal Resources with Geodetic Strain Data Paper

The paper linked below offers an initial assessment of a new method to target potential geothermal resources on the regional scale. The method is based on seeking relationships between geologic structures and geodetic observations of regional tectonic strain.

Blewitt, G. et al Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah

Oct 01, 2004
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Altona, NY EGS Field Site Radon Study

Data include 222Rn activities and complimentary geochemical data for multiple field experiments as part of an EGS project

Brown, S. and Christensen, J. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Sep 02, 2016
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Baseline System Costs for a 50 MW Enhanced Geothermal System 2012

Substantial unexploited opportunity exists for the US, and the world, in Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). This cost analysis study provides a baseline cost for a 50 MW Geothermal Power Plant in a challenging New England environment. The study then assesses how project costs wo...

Selman, N. Gas Equipment Engineering Corporation

Apr 30, 2012
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Utah FORGE: 2023 Induced Seismicity Mitigation Plan

This is the updated Utah FORGE Phase 3B induced seismicity mitigation plan (ISMP) covering the general Utah FORGE area. This new version incorporates newly collected seismic data, including data collected during the 2022 stimulation and a probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (...

Pankow, K. et al University of Utah Seismograph Stations

Aug 09, 2023
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Utah FORGE: Phase 3 Ground Water Level Monitoring Data

Groundwater data around the Utah FORGE site has been collected to determine the piezometric levels and compositional variability. Field measurements in 2020 are designed to obtain and survey new groundwater wells that have been drilled on the distal periphery of the Utah FORGE pro...

Kirby, S. Utah Geological Survey

Sep 30, 2020
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EGS Collab Experiment 1: SIMFIP Notch-164 GRL Paper

Characterizing the stimulation mode of a fracture is critical to assess the hydraulic efficiency and the seismic risk related to deep fluid manipulations. We have monitored the three-dimensional displacements of a fluid-driven fracture during water injections in a borehole at ~1.5...

Guglielmi, Y. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Sep 24, 2020
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Geomechanical Modeling for Thermal Spallation Drilling

Wells for Engineered Geothermal Systems (EGS) typically occur in conditions presenting significant challenges for conventional rotary and percussive drilling technologies: granitic rocks that reduce drilling speeds and cause substantial equipment wear. Thermal spallation drilling,...

Walsh, S. et al Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Aug 24, 2011
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Utah FORGE 9-3664: Development of Tagged Proppant for Conductivity Enhancement and Reservoir Characterization 2024 Annual Workshop Presentation

This is a presentation on the Development and Testing of Tagged Proppant for Fracture Conductivity Enhancement and Reservoir Characterization in EGS by The University of Oklahoma, presented by Ahmad Ghassemi. This slide presentation video discusses the development and testing of n...

Ghassemi, A. et al Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah

Sep 03, 2024
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West Flank Coso FORGE: Magnetotelluric Inversion

The Coso Magnetotelluric (MT) dataset of which the West Flank FORGE MT data is a subset, was collected by Schlumberger / WesternGeco and initially processed by the WesternGeco GeoSolutions Integrated EM Center of Excellence in Milan, Italy. The 2011 data was based on 99 soundings ...

Blankenship, D. Sandia National Laboratories

May 16, 2016
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Utah FORGE: Well 16A(78)-32 Planned Trajectory

This submission includes an Excel spreadsheet containing the Utah FORGE deep well 16A(78)-32 planned trajectory including UTM coordinates, elevations, and depths from the well head to the toe. This proposed new injection well is expected to descend vertically to a depth of approxi...

Podgorney, R. and Nash, G. Idaho National Laboratory

Mar 24, 2020
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Chlorite Dissolution Rates From 25 to 275 degrees and pH 3 to 10

We have calculated a chlorite dissolution rate equation at far from equilibrium conditions by combining new data (20 experiments at high temperature) with previously published data Smith et al. 2013 and Lowson et al. 2007. All rate data (from the 127 experiments) are tabulated in...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Sep 27, 2013
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Utah FORGE: GeoThermOPTIMAL Video

This is a project description video by Dr. William W. Fleckenstein related to their "Development of Multi-Stage Fracturing System and Wellbore Tractor to Enable Zonal Isolation During Stimulation and EGS Operations in Horizontal Wellbores" R&D project at Utah FORGE which is linked...

Fleckenstein, W. Colorado School of Mines

Dec 12, 2022
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Thermal Drawdown Induced Flow Channeling in Fractured Geothermal Reservoirs: Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

We investigate the flow-channeling phenomenon caused by thermal drawdown in fractured geothermal reservoirs. A discrete fracture network-based, fully coupled thermal "hydrological" mechanical simulator is used to study the interactions between fluid flow, temperature change, and t...

Fu, P. et al Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Nov 15, 2015
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Utah FORGE: Induced Seismicity Mitigation Plan

This is the current induced seismicity mitigation plan (ISMP) for the Utah FORGE project. Information that was collected during Phases 1 and 2 of the Utah FORGE project has been incorporated, as have literature searches and risk assessments. The purpose of this report is to identi...

Utah, U. et al Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah

Dec 30, 2020
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Simulation Tools for Modeling Thermal Spallation Drilling on Multiple Scales

Widespread adoption of geothermal energy will require access to deeply buried resources in granitic basement rocks at high temperatures and pressures. Exploiting these resources necessitates novel methods for drilling, stimulation, and maintenance, under operating conditions that ...

Walsh, S. et al Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Jan 01, 2012
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Fallon, NV FORGE well 21-31 Lithology, Mineral, Image Log, and Injection Test data

Attached is 5 datasets collected from Fallon FORGE well 21-31 located in Churchill County, Nevada collected and interpreted between Feburary 2018-January 2020. This submission includes 1) new lithology interpretation derived from petrographic thin sections of sidewall cores taken ...

Kraal, K. and Ayling, B. Sandia National Laboratories

May 30, 2020
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Shallow EGS Regional Resource Potential and Map Snake River Plain

SMU Geothermal Lab developed a methodology to estimate shallow (1 km to 4 km) Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) resource potential using an approach that utilizes recent geology and geophysical research along with new well data to improve the thermal conductivity model, mitigate i...

Batir, J. et al Southern Methodist University Huffington Department of Earth Sciences

Oct 30, 2020
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Fallon FORGE: Lithology Logs and Well 21-31 Drilling Data

This submission includes lithology logs for all Fallon FORGE area wells; determined from core, cuttings, and thin section. Wells included are 84-31, 21-31, 82-36, FOH-3D, 62-36, 18-5, 88-24, 86-25, FOH-2, 14-36, 17-16, 34-33, 35A-11, 51A-20, 62-15, 72-7, 86-15, Carson_Strat_1_36-3...

Blankenship, D. et al Sandia National Laboratories

Mar 11, 2018
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